The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1887-05-12

/ 'he 'cuuer WINS turucu urOuOu nnI
pushed to tho engine and couple,
mp and coal car ATTACHED. Som,
six or eight Confederate soldiers
volunteered in tho chase and tool
passage in the coal car. From
Etowah to Kingston, Captain Ful!e
tan ut the ratio Of sixty miles pc
hour and found the fugitives hat
passed by. A large number o
freight trains had pulled by the sta.
ton go as to lot the fugitiyes out a.
the further end Of the track. The
agent Informed Captain Fuller tha,
the leader Of the fugitives claimed tc
be q Confederate officer who had i'm
pressed the train at Big Shanty, and
tho three cars were loaded With fixed
ammunition for General Beaureeard
at Corin'h. Captain Fuller, ho said,
was behind with the regular paesen-
ger train. 10 insisted that the
agent should lot him bave q switch
key aud instruct the conductors OF
the down trains to pull by md get
ont Of his way, as it was important
for him to go on to Chattanooga
and Coruth at rapidly as possible.
So authoritative Nus ho in his do~
mand, aud SO plausible in speech,
that tho agent, patriotic man, be-
flowing bis htory, carried out the re-
quest, aud 30 tho fugitiycs, by the
iuesse of their leader, passed by
one great obsti uction. The freight
trains were gathered here, and so
heavy TO move, that had Captain
Fuller stopped to get them out Of
his way TO pass, his delay would
have been too long. Finding he
could not pass with old Yonah, he
abandoned it. The Rome engine
was on tho Y headed for Chattanooga,
With one car attached. Ue immo-
diately took possession OF ii and
continued tue chase with oil who
would volunteer to so with him. He
had not proceeded far before he
found cross-Iies on the track every
200 or 800 yards.
After passing Kingston the fugi-
tives punched oat the end of the
rear car which enabled them to drop
out tics without Stacking up. Cap
tain Fuller was forced to lose time
in stopping TO remove these obstrUc-
tions. Laboring under these dis-
Advantages the pursuer redoublad
their energy md proceeded TO
Adairsvillo. When no reached u
point four miles from Adairsville he
f,und sixty yards of track torn up,
and set ont on foot, calling his men
to follow. Whom ho had gone half
a mile, he looked back and saw none
but Anthony Murphy following
him. He made two miles as qsck
as he conll run, and met tho OK
press freight. Having gun and
knowing the sisnal, tho engineer
recognized Captain Faller and stops
pod tho train Immediately. Know
ing that Mr., Murphy was only
short distance behind, the train was
detained until he came up. He then
took position at tho rear end of
the train, twenty car lengths from
the engine and started backwards in
tho direction Of Adairsville, without
taking time to explain matters to
tue engineer or conductor.
When he got within 200 yards OF
the switch at Adairsville, Captain
Fuller jumped Of the train, ran
ahead and changed tho switch, SO as
to throw the cars on tho side track.
He accomplished this, chaaged the
switch to the main track, and jump
ed on the engine which had been
uncoupled from the train. This feat
was accomplished soquickly that the
train ard engine ran side by side for
fully 800 yards. lie now had only
the engine with the following crow
A. Murphy Peter Bracken the en-
gineer Flelning Cox, tho fireman,
and Alonzo Martin, wood passer.
He resumed the chase, making Call
houn, 10 miles distant in IL minutes
As he approached Calhoun, Captain
Fuller recognized tho telegraph op-
orator from Dalton, lad twelve
years old. The operator recognized
Captain Fuller, and as the engine
passed by at the rate of fifteen miles
per hour, grasped Captain Fuller's
hand, held out TO him, and was safe
ly. landed on tho engine. The OPP
orator having discovered that the